This collection of prayers from the early seventeenth century, edited by the poet Robert Hudson, travelled with me to Vietnam. For a second time,…
Preston Jones
Indivisible (David G. Evans, 2018)
Living with War: A Job-like wondering met with silence Making their way to Panama in late 1989 to overthrow the drug-running regime of Manuel…
Letter to My Students
Culture / Ordinary Life / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
Dear Students, I’ll tell you about two key moments in my life. They came close together. I think I was seventeen. I’m not sure…
What Do Students Need from Me?
What do my students need from me? Obviously, they need knowledge. If our civilization is to live, then each generation will need to know,…
The life of faith in an evolving world: a sketch
In the beginning God created everything necessary for natural life. In time, the stars, planets, minerals, trees and all earthly beings would spring from…
The Life of Faith in an Evolving World: A Sketch
In the beginning God created everything necessary for natural life. In time, the stars, planets, minerals, trees and all earthly beings would spring from…
The Sorrow and Hope of Homeschooling
Community / Family / Spirituality
I’ve been reading biographical sketches of Christian women who lived in the late Roman Empire. A theme the sketches have in common is rejection:…
With Godzilla in the City
Community / Faith / Ordinary Life / Spirituality
Driving through a section of Guatemala City for the five hundredth time, a strange tape played through my mind. Godzilla was trampling Tokyo, simultaneously…
The Cross and the Wide World
Faith / Ordinary Life / Spirituality
Christians relate to the Lord differently. The variety of Protestant denominations and the numerous subgroups within Roman Catholicism point to different theological accents and…
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt, 1963), An Ordinary Man (Paul Rusesabagina, 2006)
Ordinary Men I recently read two books about ordinary men. One of them, Paul Rusesabagina, played a key role in rescuing 1,200 Tutsis and…